Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-09-28

ing institution.
A kindergarten was opened at Marys.
vile yesterday.
The population OF Canada is esti.
mated at 100000.
A windmill company was incor-
porated at Santa Cruz yesterday.
Joseph M. Douglass, a Virginia City
millionaire, has been sent to Jail for
contempt of Court
Creosoted pine ties are considered
more valuable than oak by many
southern engineers.
A great question of Eastern society
is: How shall gentlemen" dress in
order not to be mistaken tor the wait
ers?
AT Butte, Montana, bootblack not
over twelve years old has something
over $500 TO his credit in one of the
city banks.
1t is said that the convict popula-
tion of the United States, not counting
the rogues out of jail, Is "a, ,349, or one
to every $50 inhabitants.
The building of railroads in Mexico
has been accompanied by singular
phenomena. Wherever the rails are
laid rain follows, and where there are
no rails there has been drought. The
fact is said to be we'll authenticated.
Some Of the Oldest states are renew
ing their growth of timber, thus tend.
ing to allay the eventful exhaustion of
the timber supply. In New England
there is vigorous second growth of
white pine, where the forests are al
ready yielding between two hundred
million and three hundred million
feet Of timber.
The sheepherders who make annual
visits TO the mountain ranges of Inyo.
Mono and Alpine counties are caus.
ing great destruction by setting fire to
brush and allowing the flames to com
municate to the timber, and large sec
tions of the finest timber in the Sierras
are destroyed. The people are NOV.
to prevent this wanlonness.
AT a special meeting of the Board of
Trade of Los Angeles, Saturday, reso.
lutions were adopted favorlng the
projected standard guage railroad
from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles
and pledging the support OF the board
in carrying out the plans proposed by
the projectors of Salt Lake. The Board
says the road will be successful in
every point OF view from the day the
last rail is laid.
a young man oourted a young lady
in Missouri, engaged to marry her and
put upon her finger an engagement
ring. Three months afterward he told
the gir that he had changed his mind,
was IN love with another woman and
that he would not marry her. The
young lady, with many tears and COM
plants at his treatment, returned The
ring 10 her fa:lhless lover, and then
began a suit for breach of promise OF
marriage. The defendant claimed
that by surrendcring the ring the lady
had released him from his promise
bui the supreme Court Of Missouri
decided that The surrender of the ring
hy the plaintiff, Nrung from her by
The ACTIONS of the defendant, could no,
he tortured into an agreement on her
part to resclnd tie contract of mar.
riage. Al She could do was TO accept
The situation and seek tor compensa-
tior in damages such as the law might
give The Supreme Court of Missouri
is clearly level.headed and sound
tribunal.
Reno Gazette: An individual who
had evidently been indalglng freely in
Carson middle head, rushed into il
saloon Oh Commercial Row, Friday
night and declared III slcnlorian tones
that he was ha'. "huc iaroo" from
Beewawe, and brnser by birth, and
would like to gaze at the color of HE
RenoiIe's top knot who took issue
with him on els proposition. While
he was declaring himself an indiNid
ual emerged from the clgbroom in lhe
rear ol the saloon, where he had Just
lost . mouths wages (enrned in hay
,iehi), walked deliberately to u "huek
aroo' aud without word planh 4 his
immense hsl square on the lnltcr'S
nose, causing the c,arct TO liow 60.
plously, and bringing into full view OF
The rapipe,n seven MILTON stars md
tw" ur lir,e cnhels As soon as he